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>> when you see the women fight, >> on fox. >> rowdy rhonda rousy is one of the fearest fighters. >> and liz karmoosh went from sergeant. >> the last general in afghanistan. >> i am confident that the afghan people appreciate our presence. >> meet fighting joe dunford. >> 1958, 19 years old charles starkweather and girlfriend go on a killing spree across the
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great plains. 11 died. >> you believe she was never being held hostage. >> no. >> why is this story still making headlines? >> i'm oliver north. >> i'm claudia cowen. >> i'm arthele neville. that's next on "fox files." when you see the women fight. they usually steal the show. >> my idea is burn myself. push myself. so there is nothing left. >> and the takedown by rousy. >> the number one thing i learned in judo, mma, is not to have any fear. >> the ufc or ultimate fighting championship has come a long way since its inception in 1993 when it was bought in 2001 by dana white, president of the ufc and his partners the fertita
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brothers. >> congratulations on your first show. got to feel good? >> thank you, james. >> fox files talked with dana about his success. >> you took over this company when it was in a serious financial hole. >> i scald called my partners. and a month later we own the company. >> how much did you purchase it for? >> $2 million. >> how much is it worth today? >> a lot more than $2 million. >> a lot more than $2 million is an understatement. today the ufc brings in an estimated $600 million a year. and is worth over an estimated $2 billion. recently they signed a lucrative broadcast deal with fox sports 1. >> the biggest sports franchise on earth. most valuable. we are in 175 countries. 23 languages. 1 billion homes worldwide. largest pay-per-view provider in the world. this sport works everywhere. don't care what color you are,
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what country, what language you speak. we are all human beings. fight is in our dna. like it. >> we keep talking mixed martial arts. >> which fighting style was the best? would a karate guy beat kung fu, boxer, beat a wrestler? the answer to the age old question is no one styled was the best. you had to have a little piece of everything to be a complete fighter. talking boxing, kickboxing, wrestling. and any other martial art. >> recently women have been brought into the ufc family they're held to the rules and standard of the men. but a few years ago, tmz sports caught dana saying this. >> when will we see women in the ufc? >> never. >> that guy was an idiot. oh, wait, you said that. my bad. sorry. >> not only did i say they would not fight here. i stamped the never on there.
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>> you say that because? >> i saw a fight one time. it was a mismatch between two women. it completely turned me off to women fighting in mma. it is just a testament now to how much the sport has evolved that we can create an entire division in the ufc. >> wasn't a sexist statement on your part? >> no. everybody thought it was. everybody would accuse me of that. but it was not sexist. no. far from it. i amount farthest thing from that. >> triple hip toss by rousy. >> try to find as many as they want, to trade for me. but they're not going to find anything like me. >> fox files sat down with one of ufcs most dominating women fighters and 135 pound bantam weight champion, rowdy rhonda rousy, 7-0, all wins coming by arm bar in the first round. >> i'm entirely emotionless. >> she is one of the most fierce
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competitors i have ever met, ever in boxing or mixed martial arts. >> that sense of competitiveness started at a young age. growing up in north dakota, rhonda was a swimmer, but when she moved to l.a., she took up judo. this was not without a built of resistance from her mother who just happened to be the first american world champion in judo. >> she didn't want me to do it. she thought people would expect too much. she acquiesced. i had a knack for it. i was socially, shy. i, i didn't speak very much. and we moved to l.a. from north dakota. i had like a thick accent. i was like, oh, jeez, for pete's sake. i love moving to new schools over there. saint ann's is such a nice place to go. i didn't fit in. and judo, really, forced me to be one-on-one with the kid. i didn't have to say anything. force me to be social. >> judo would bring rhonda to
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the olympic stage where she was part of the 2004 and 2008 teams. she failed to medal in 2004. and was disillusioned by the life of an olympian. >> so after the 2004, olympics you ran away from home, i understand. >> pretty much came done to, you know, everything that i did, every single day was dictated by another person. the week i turned 18. i packed up all my stuff. just went up. off across the country. thought i was going to get a job at a convenience store and go to community college or something. >> while in upstate new york, rhonda maintained a rigorous training regiment. stayed away from restrictive life of coaches and supervised practice thousands. >> i ended up moving to chicago for a while. i had no real coaches. no one was really coaching me. so -- i ended up having like one of the best years ever. won the world cup, and we hadn't had an american woman do that in nine years. i was actually making a little money. >> fortunately she had a change of heart and decided to give the
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olympics one more try. >> it went way belter the second time around. >> bronze is way better than nothing at all, right? >> yep. >> didn't you think? >> definitely is. it is very bumpy, bumpy path. >> that bumpy path led rhonda to being the first american to medal in judo. along the way she picked up the taste for mixed martial arts. >> what point did you say, i want in? >> my judo teammates started to get into watching mma. little fight nights. they would get together and watch the fights that they were on. and one of them. i saw, gina and julie fight. and i thought i could beat both those girls. i could be doing that right now. but i didn't want to say it. i was in the middle of an olympic run. everyone would turn on me and call me an idiot. to this day i haven't gotten a bruise from getting hit in a fight. >> coming up, meet the one fighter and marine who changed that. people come up to me at parties all the time and ask,
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how do you feel in general about women being a part of the ufc? >> i think it's great. having women fighter >> how do you feel about women being part of the ufc? >> women have the same opportunities that men do. i mean, they're just as skilled. >> i was looking for a sense of direction. i wanted something that had discipline. >> liz carmoucho was grew up in japan. she followed in hr father's footsteps and wasn't military. any bran of the military. best of the best. the most challenging one. marine corps. >> how many tours of duty? >> three tours to iraq. >> which years? >> '06, '08, '09. >> during her last tour in iraq, her friends introduced liz to the hard hitting world of mixed
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martial arts. >> you know what i like it. i don't just focus on one art. i want to be the best fighter to. be that engaged an involved. a game of chess that i could push myself to. >> this is a machine. a gear that she has that other human beings don't possess. when she turns the gear on. she leaves everybody in the dust. >> so when did you first take your official lesson. >> my first official lesson, the day back from iraq. first day, sparring, bloody nose. tank top ripped, bra ripped. beaten up. okay, i'm look hooked. i want to do this. >> to confirm. with a girl? >> only men. >> holy smokes. they showed you no mercy. >> not at all. >> ooh have seen grown men that are professionals in mma, come in. she serves them look they're children. leaves everybody crying. within six month she's became a pro. and within eight months she was fighting for the world title. so she is, really good.
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>> on february 23rd. 2013, liz's hard work paid off. she became a part of history. she earned the chance to fight the champion, rhonda rousey in the first-ever women's title fight. and she would be doing it as the the ufc's first openly gay fighter. >> she had rhonda rousey's back. >> to this day i still haven't gotten a single bruise from getting hit in a fight. knock on wood. i did get a bruise from liz carmoucho giving me the cross face. that was it. >> how did you feel when you didn't come out with the w. >> i did the best i could do. but i wanted more. of course i want to go out and win. that was the dream. i wasn't going in and wanting to be a part of history. no, i wanted to make history. i want to come out there with
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the title. not having that is kind of a check for me. but it made me work that much harder. >> liz was a good fight, huh? >> great fight. >> i would not be surprised if she put another string together and came back for more. >> for a title against you? >> you never know. a crazy sport. >> that would be good. >> i would love it. i would love it. >> liz may make the prediction come true. july 27, 2013 in her second ufc fight, liz fought the brazilian contender and beat her with a ground and pound game. >> this is where carmouche shines. >> as both women make headlines, rhonda rousey's next challenge one of the first women to coach the reality show "the ultimate fighter" against her most hated rival, misha tate. >> i knew they were going to set me up with something. >> i was coaching and, not fighting. >> extremely emotionally taxing.
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i care a lot about every single one of these kids on the team. it's their whole lives on the line. it's the whole world to them. and they would be disrespectful for them not to take it just as seriously. >> what can we expect for the season. >> i give a slogan, i call misha's team fake nice. and ous team real mean. >> about the team or you and misha? >> nor me and misha. a team show. we're calling it team, okay. we need to have a sense of camaraderie on team rowdy. team real mean. and some like people they don't like it. they don't like people belg being upfront and honest, it's not nice and not polite. >> their rivalry comes to a head this december when rhonda and misha will be fighting for the title. >> are you going to take on rhonda and take her down this time? >> hell yeah. >> december 28th. everybody watch. fantastic fight. felt first time i was really
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come pet tichlt i got arm barred. i am on a mission i will not get arm barred. >> she is going down. she knows it. oh, i just, i wish it was tonight. i do. i wish it was. but, alas, what makes you a professional is to beat somebody up at a certain day and certain weight. otherwise we would just be brawlers. >> coming up oliver north sits down with the last general in afghanistan. you know throughout history, folks have suffered from frequent heartburn. butetting heartburn and then treating day after day is a thing of the past. block the acid with prilosec otc, and don't get heartburn in the first place. [ male announcer ] one pill each morning 24 hours. zero heartburn. and you know what i walked out with? [ slurps ] [ dad ] a new passat. [ dad ] 0% apr. 60 months. done and done. [ dad ] in that driveway,
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>> he has been called the last general in one of america's longest wars. >> we continue to have challenges. >> tasked with an end to the combat role in afghanistan after 12 years. >> what's not changed is the will of the coalition. the mission for joe dunford is monumental. he works around the clock and is
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constantly on the move. throughout afghanistan. >> i'm general joe dunford. >> at nato supreme headquarters in belgium. >> i look forward to working with general dunford. >> and the nation's capital, washington, d.c. >> what's your view, general? what is your number? >> senator, i am not going to give you a number. >> dunford follows high profile generals who held the post. in april, 2013, he took command of all u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan. known as the international security assistance force or isaf. we traveled to the battlefield to hear from the general firsthand? >> give me your sense of what victory is in this fight? >> we'll win when the afghan security forces are capable of providing security here in afghanistan. what we are frying trying to do ensure never again can afghanistan be used as a sanctuary.
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>> he enjoys a good reputation. >> general jack keen served 47 years in the u.s. army. >> he has been in combat. he is well known inside marine cor corps. >> dunford earned the neck naic "fighting joe." you and i first other on the we to a place called baghdad. >> that's exactly right. >> where did you have your first contact. >> we had the first contact after crossing the line. >> give us a sense how different this mission is when we first met. >> the geography is much more >> after iraq, dunford moved up in rank to four-star general. in october, 2012, president obama nominated him to lead the u.s. and nato effort in afghanistan. and his confirmation hearing on capitol hill he spoke about the support he receives on the home front. >> joining me today my wife ellen.
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i am very fortunate to have her love and support. she is a great mother to our three children and serves as a tireless add ve cvocate. she is unkequestionably the mos valuable player in our family. >> she introduced me to him because she knew we had grown up in the same area. >> both joe duchnford and his we ellen have deep roots in boston. he was born in south boston. moved to quincy, massachusetts at age 12. the couple met in washington, d.c. he was a young marine captain. as for ellen. >> i had come down here and working as a physical therapist. >> i was taking a course at george washington university. ellen's roommate invited me over. the three of us had dinner one saturday night. i think two weeks later i asked her out on a date. >> when you brought him home for the first time and said i am going to marry this marine, what
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was your family reaction? >> a local boy had gun to the same high school, garage graduat graduated. >> they began a live together serving our nation. goes back generations in both their families. >> ellen, tell me about this footlocker. >> his grandfather's world war i trunk. we have his picture here. then his father served in korea. >> he was with the first battalion, fifth marines. fought at seoul. didn't talk much about it. clearly the heroen my life was my dad. the shot of joe's dad and the police uniform? >> his father retooired from boston police after a 40 odd year history. >> from the frying pan into the policeman. >> your family in here too? >> my father was a world war ii
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vet. served in the army. >> in 2011, the president announced all u.s. combat forces would withdraw from afghanistan. >> by 2014 this process of transition will be complete. >> now the weight of carrying out that decision is squarely on the shoulders of general duch dunford. 18, june this year he delivered an important milestone. >> after ten years of the coalition leading combat operations in afghanistan we are in a supporting effort. >> to the general, the great challenge today is how to train, advise and assist the afghanistan security forces as they carry the fight to the enemy all on their own. >> woo have grown a force from, the very small force. almost 352,000. the size of the security forces. >> we have a training mission. carried out by afghan whose are trained by american advisers. the commander of the afghan air
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swing gave me his assessment. >> we are very happy from all our advisers, especially from our american advisers. >> we make great stride with that. i have seen that myself. >> after the mission is done. afghan forces will be capable of dealing with the threat inside of afghanistan. >> dunford is responsible for what happens to millions of pieces of u.s. equipment, now in the war zone. its return, retrograde estimated at $6 billion. a lot of concern. a lot of expensive stuff will be left behind that the afghans can't use, fact or fikttioction? >> only equipment we leave behind is equipment the afghans can use. >> that doesn't mean this isn't a real challenge, it is. the real challenge, what kind of equipment will we leave. what is the size of the north that we are going to leaf to help support them. >> we are going to provide commitment to the afghan people. after 2014. >> ten years ago, on another hot and dusty battlefield, fighting
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joe duchnford told me what motivates him. a commitment to those with whom he serves. >> i would want to be remembered. i was looking out for them. >> i admire the way my husband has been able to be faithful to the people he serves with. >> i am very proud to serve with you. >> extraordinary military force. >> i have never seen throughout my entire understanding of ml terry history, where so few are doing so much for so many and for such an extended period of time. >> dunford is well aware of the sacrifices made by america's military families. >> for the many, many years that i have served in the marine corps and raised our children and all the times, and there was no insignificant amount that was absorbed by ellen. >> i think he has done a very good job of trying to be a father. be a husband.
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be a good marine and good citizen in this country. >> one of your division commanders out here happens to be from your neighborhood back in massachusetts. he described you as one of the best of the best of quincy, massachusetts. is this a boston mafia over here? >> i don't think it is a boston mav yeah. -- mafia. >> it is not boston mafia. it is well represented. >> i would make a similar claim about the world series in 2013. pretty confident the boston red sox will win. >> coming up -- ♪ [ female announcer ] pop in a whole new kind of clean with tide pods. three chambs. three times the stain removal power.
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the syrian government reportedly agreed to allow u.n. inspectors to visit the scene of the alleged attack. a senior obama administration official says though there is very little doubt the assad regime gassed its own citizens. >> forest service says it is a top priority to keep a massive wildfire from moving further into yosemite park. the fire covers 210 square miles. the size of the city of chicago. strong wind in the forecast tonight which will make it tougher to fight. it is so big outlying areas are seeing ash fall like snowflakes. now back to fox files. charles starkweather and his girlfriend, two teenagers who bring a chill to lincoln and the nearby farming community of bennett. in january of 1958, the two left a bloody trail of terror on the great plains. to this day, the mystery
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continues. was 14-year-old carol ann fugate, charlie starkweather's hostage? or willing participant? >> you believe she was never a hostage? >> yes. >> she had nothing to do with it. >> do you think lincoln will forget charlie starkweather? >> in 1958, dell harding was a reporter for the lincoln star, earning $70 a week. what was the time like before the murders happened? >> it was a great time. and a great place to grow up. >> dennis carnoff group in lincoln during the 1950s. he was the son of lancaster county sheriff, merle carnoff along with his mother, gertrude, they maintained living quarters in the county jail. >> a tough, mean guy. two years ahead of me in school. but he was 4 years older than i was. so that -- suggests something
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about how i did in school. >> the starkweather family consisting of six boys and one girl were a rough bunch. >> they were a rough, pretty tough, probably scrambling to make a living, i think they were, at the time they were in the, in the business. >> hollywood was beginning to pay a lot of attention to juvenile delinquency, charlie starkweather fancied himself a young version of james dean. >> he was not very tall, kind of huskey, red-headed, bow-legged. >> people called him redheaded woodpecker. teased in school. not too many people i think teased him. he would start a fight at the drop of a hat. >> he hated people. and he used that as an excuse to say this is why i hate people. because they were mean to me. >> linda batiste is a lawyer and co-author of "the twelth
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victim." >> he used that to fuel the hate he had already into more hatred. >> but there was one person the 18-year-old starkweather didn't hate. he had eyes for a spunky and rebellious 13-year-old named carol ann fugate. >> he became intrigued with carolyn. she was with him too. he was so funny. put me on a pedestal. he always wanted to buy me things. >> the two cruised around lincoln in char low's 49 ford hot rod, charlie was a crack shot and into guns. carol's parents didn't like him one bit. >> they weren't impressed with him as a person. they were concerned about the age difference between them. >> this empty lot in the low income belmont section is all that remains of where carol was living at the time with marion bart let, a night watchman, and 36-year-old mother velda. also living there was her
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2 1/2-year-old half sister, betty jeanne. charlie quit high school. but he hated working menial jobs which included a stint as a garbage man. after getting fired and having a fight with his father, he was kicked out of the house. charlie was desperate for money. located here on cornhusker highway, this used to be a crest gas station that charlie used to like to hang around. in the early morning hours, december 1, 1957, there was only one emplumeroyee working, starkweather robbed him and then forced him at gun point to drive them both to a secluded area. >> he came in and robbed culvert. took him out on the road and killed him. and the speculation is that he did so to get money so he could buy things for carol. >> do we know how much money he got from robert culver? >> under $100. >> charlie saw himself as a
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genuine outlaw. but what happened after the murder is where our story becomes murky and mired in controversy. >> he began telling carol, it's just you and me. we have got to go away together. at this point had she started to feel suffocated by him. she told hem not to call her anymore. >> she did. >> january 21, 1958, knowing what happened at the bartlet home in belmont on the cold winter day depend on who you believe. one thing is known for sure. carol's step farther and mother had been shot and stabbed to death. 2 1/2-year-old betty jeanne was bludgeoned with a rifle and stabbed with a knife. 14-year-old carol came home from school to find starkweather in her home pointing a shotgun at her with her family nowhere in sight. in this exclusive 19 #89
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interview, the then 46-year-old carol ann fugate deskrebd what next. >> he shoved the gun in my face. and had me sit in the rocking chair. he told me at the time my family was at this woman's house. if i did what i was told they wouldn't be hurt. all he had to do and make a phone call they would die. >> a shotgun blast can cause a lot of damage. there would be blood everywhere. apparently he was able to clean it all up before she came home. >> yes, he was. >> how is this possible? >> he had two hours to clean it up. >> the three body having been dumped in two shed in the backyard went undiscovered for nearly a week as carol and charlie remained in the house. but reporter dell harding who visited the crime scene still does not believe carol's story. i think charlie's story, got in an argument with the step farther. escalate from there. enned up shooting the step farther. her mother ran in, screaming. he then killed her mother.
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>> in your view, carol ann was there and watching awful this and knew exactly what was happening to her family? >> yes. no doubt in my mind. >> it is not true. it's not true. >> various people came to the home looking for charlie. trying to reach out to carol ann fugate's mother. and her demeanor was very odd. >> mrs. bartlet's mother wanted to get in the house. carol said we're all sick. go away. carol had a sign on the door. stay out, everybody sick with the flu. it was signed ms. bartlet. >> the only ms. bartlet in her house was her almost-year-old sister who couldn't read or write yet. that was her sign. gee, maybe somebody will figure this out and ask for do something. because i am afraid to do something. >> other family members and the lincoln police stopped by during the week. but carol talked them out of coming inside.
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on monday, january 27th. carol's grandmother finally had enough. she yelled at carol that she was returning with the police and a search warrant. charlie decided it was time to hit the road. with carol. hours later when the body of marion, velda and betty jeanne were discovered an all points bulletin. >> i swashear i never killed anyone. i only went because i had no choice >> she said she is being taken hostage. he says she came along willinstory. >> i don't believe she was ever a hostage at the bartlet house or any time there after. >> coming up -- the bloodbath continues. you can't go to school like this, c'mon. don't do it! no! (mom vo) you never know what life's gonna throw at you. if i gotta wear clothes, you gotta wear clothes. (mom vo) that's why i got a subaru. i just pulled up. he did what now?
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i got my first prescription free. call or cck to learn more. [ male announcer ] if you n't afrd your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. after fleeing the >> after fleeing the residence, charlie and carol ann headed 20 miles south in charlie'sford to small town of bennett, stopping at the farmhouse of august meier. >> family friend. knows charlie since he was a boy. what do they do to him? >> charlie claimed that august meier came to the door carrying a gun. and so charlie supposedly felt threatened at shot him. i think he looked for an excuse to kill him. the cold-blooded killing. >> i think now -- he has killed. i know what he is capable of. i am going, whoa. you know the i am going to be very careful.
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and don't cross him. because if he could -- wipe out this man's life, what dud could do to me? >> after blasting away august meier, starkweather got his car stuck in the mud outside meier's farm. walking along the dark highway, the two were spotted by two popular bennett teenagers, 17-year-old robert jenson and 16-year-old carol king. in a fateful decision, jenson offered them a ride. wasn't long before starkweather had them at gun point in the back seat. their bloody bodies were found in a dank storm cellar near august meier's farm. jenson had been shot six times in the head. king once. her partially nude body had also been sexually mutilated. >> you saw the storm cellar? >> yes, a terrible sight. i can close my eyes and seep i today. those two kids' bodies face down in the storm cellar both shot to death. and carol mutilated.
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>> carol ann fugate admits she did hold a gun on the couple at one point and took $4 out of johnson's wallet an act that would later cost her dearly. she claims she did it at starkweather's command. january 27th. with six people murdered, charlie and carol drove back into lincoln in jenson's car. and parked in the wealthy country club section of town and slept inside the car. the next morning they cruised around the neighborhood looking for a police to hide out. dumped jenson's car and get a new one. >> they end up at a house that he became familiar with while he worked on the trash route. >> this is the home stark weather chose to hide out in. owned by wealthy and well respected 47-year-old businessman, c. lower ward and wife clara. carol ann waited in the car in the rear of the driveway. inside were 46-year-old clara ward and 51-year-old maid, lillian fencil. armed with guns and a knife.
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char low and carol ann terrorized the women for nearly ten hours. what happened at this house? >> that is a matter of dispute. only thing not disputed three people were killed. mr. ward, his wife and their maid. carol's story is that charlie killed them all. char low charlie's story is carol ann assisted in the knifings of the two women. charlie wrestled with mr. ward when he came home from work in the afternoon and charlie shot mr. ward. >> while the murders were happening at the ward house, august meier, robert jenson and carol king were discovered in bennett. everybody immediately knew who did it. >> charlie's car was stuck in the mud at the meier house. bob jenson's car was gone. i mean, you put two and two together and figure it out. >> that night, charlie and carol got into the 1956 packard and begin to head west to starkweather's brother's home in
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washington state. when the three body were discovered at the ward house the next day, lincoln verged on mass hysteria. >> everybody started thinking, my god, whose house are they in. >> governor vector anderson called in the national guard. schools were closed. guns were everywhere. lanecaster county sheriff, now had nine dead bodies on his hands. and no idea where starkweather and fugate were. >> we have made an appeal for all adjoining counties, including omaha to send all available help they can to lincoln. >> with the police looking for the packard. starkweather knew he needed a set of wheels. his opportunity came over the wyoming state lane near the town of douglas where 37-year-old salesman, merle collison was asleep in his car on the side of the highway. >> boy, unlucky guy. >> there was a fight. char llie shot him. char low's story is his gun
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jammed. and he yelled at carol to give him another gun. carol instead of giving him a gun. pumped bullets into mr. collison. charlie testified he said, she was the most trigger happy person i ever seen. >> with him slumped on the passenger floor board. starkweather was having trouble releasing the brake when 29-year-old joe sprinkle passed by him on the highway. >> i did a u-turn. and parked bump er er-to-bumperh the car. he emerged from the car and pointed a rifle at me. and said get your hand up. get your hand up or i will kill you. >> coming up. joe sprinkle may not have realized it but he was about to have the fight of his life with a mass murderer.
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stopping to help thought was a stranded motorist
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on wyoming's route 20, joe sprinkle found himself face to face with a mad man named charles starkweather. starkweather was pointing a shotgun at him and screaming about releasing the emergency brake. >> i looked inside the car. and there was a man laying in the floorboard with his fooed feet under the controls and his head over in the passenger side. i lashed out with my left hand and got the barrel, the end of the barrel. with my right hand i got the stock and then we got in the middle of the highway struggling for the gun. >> he watched as the two men battled on the desolate roadway when a wyoming patrol car driven by officer bill roemer suddenly came upon the scene. fugate rushed to his car. >> she said carol run up to him and said, it's starkweather, he's crazy. he's going to kill me. within 45 seconds i had the gun and laying him down on my back partly in the ditch.
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i got to my feet real fast, ready to keep fighting. he was running down the highway and he jumped in car. >> having seen roemer, starkweather floored it. roemer radioed in on alert to the highway patrol and stork weather was finally captured after a high speed chase. starkweather reportedly told his captors, quote, don't be rough with the girl. she didn't have anything to do with it. eight days of terror had finally come to an end. from lincoln, the sheriff and his wife gertrude went to wyoming to retrieve the young fugitive. they were both returned in separate cars to lincoln. carly rode with the sheriff, harold with mrs. karnoff. >> according to my mother she never said anything to suggest that she's the innocent victim here. >> reporter: starkweather confessed to killing his first victim, gas station attendant. although 11 people had been murdered it's still a mystery
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while charlie and carol were tried separately, only for the robbery and killing of 17-year-old robert jenson. after a two-week trial in may 1958, starkweather was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. that october, one week before her trial began, carol held a press conference. >> i was at the interview and watched carol in her usual icy cold demeanor answer questions. >> did he say why he couldn't? >> i presented to the public, you know, this person that, you know, well, she's hard and she's this and she's that, not knowing that behind that was a person who was terrified. >> despite what he said when he was arrested, starkweather testified against fugate, claiming she was a willing participant in the horrific murder spree. in november, 15-year-old carol ann fugate was found guilty of murder while in the perpetration of a robbery.
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although facing the death penalty, carol was sentenced to life in prison. >> did you think she t got a fair trial? >> yes. she was not charged with actually killing anyone. that's what you call felony murderer, if you're a willing paent, you're equally guilty. >> john stef fence berry, the co-author of "12th victim" disagrees with the verdict. >> she was not acting as a free atlanta any time. in order to commit a crime, you have to act as a free agent. >> for charles starkweather, justice was swift. an a failed series of appeals he was executed on june 25th, 1959. dale harding was a witness. >> gave him three jolts of electricity. he was raised up from the chair and down each time. looked like a leather mask over his face so you couldn't see his expressions. and my immediate impression was that was too quick and too clean and too merciful compared to what he had done to bob jenson
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and carole king and other people. >> reporter: in lincoln, lancaster county sheriff terry wagner showed fox files the content of the recently discovered wallet of charles starkweather. >> we had it, just a real plain tooled leather wallet. his hunting license from 1957. his social security card. there were photographs from a picture booth of he and carol ann fugate together. and he looks like a pretty normal guy. >> had these pictures ever been seen publicly before? >> no. they've been locked in a safe. >> reporter: carol ann fugate spent 18 years in prison. her sentence was commuted an she was paroled in 1976 at the age of 32. she moved to michigan where she lived quietly, working as a hospital orderly and marrying fred claire when she was 63. but carol made international headlines recently when she was critically injured in a car accident that killed her husband. strangely, his obituary from the
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funeral homemade no mention of carol. those eight days of murder on the great plains still haunt lincoln, nebraska. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. ry and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts,
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